Monday, June 22, 2026
6/22/202629 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
Part I (00:14 – 05:13)
Keir Starmer’s Tenure Heading to Its End: UK Prime Minister Appears Poised to Resign – What’s Behind It, and Who Will Take Over?
Part II (05:13 – 16:13)
The U.S. Deal with Iran: This Falls Short of President Trump’s Stated Aims
- Trump Put His Own Interests Above All in the Iran Deal by The New York Times (Thomas L. Friedman)
- Trump Was Right. The War Ended With a Surrender. by The New York Times (Nicholas Krisof)
Part III (16:13 – 22:25)
Russia is Attacking Cathedrals Now: Russia Sends Signal to Ukraine, and It Is Immensely Theological, Political, and Historical
- With Its Attack on Kyiv’s Cathedral, Russia Reaches a New Low by The Wall Street Journal (Konstantin Akinsha)
Part IV (22:25 – 29:19)
The Celebration of a Massive, Ugly Library: The Dedication of the Obama Presidential Library
- Obama’s new center seeks to rekindle the hope of his presidency by The Washington Post (Karen Tumulty)
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[intro music] It's Monday, June 22nd, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Well, when you talk about elections in the United States, you talk about presidential elections every four years. You're talking about a predictable cycle, and you're not talking about a situation in which the United States government can stand or fall in terms of a presidential administration in any normal sense. And so that's in contrast to what is true in Great Britain. In Great Britain, you really can't talk about a government collapsing or a government failing, and that's because when you have a parliamentary system, the majority party can decide it wants a new leader, and basically you have a new leader. And that means that the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the United Kingdom is really collapsing. And as a matter of fact, it may be that he announces his resignation even today. And the reality is that the alternative is that he would face a head-off between himself and Andy Burnham, who is the former mayor of Greater Manchester, a longtime figure in the Labour Party, not a particularly well-defined figure politically, but he is known to be someone of rather enormous political gifts and personal magnetism, and those are basically two things that the Labour Party's decided the current prime minister lacks. Not just one of them, but both of them. It was just a matter of a few days ago that Andy Burnham won this special election for this parliamentary seat in the House of Commons, and returning to the House of Commons, he now has standing